Academic stress in higher technology students
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The main objective of this research was to identify the level of academic stress to students of Higher
Technology in Finance of a public higher education institution of the city of Guayaquil-Ecuador. The
research design was non-experimental cross-sectional, with a non-probabilistic sample for convenience
of 210 students, who have a stay in the institution greater than six months. The process of authorizing,
surveying and analyzing information was carried out in the third quarter of 2017. The tool used was the
SISCO Academic Stress Inventory designed by Dr. Barraza Macías Arturo of the Universidad Pedagógi-
ca de Durango in Mexico. In this investigation, the instrument obtained a high level of reliability with a
score of 0.894 according to Cronbach’s Alpha. In conclusion, academic stress is present in the middle le-
vel, with the demands of the environment such as overload, the major triggers of psychological reactions.
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